Anyone in the area, this will be a strange & wonderful evening, well with checking out.

Doug
> On May 30, 2016, at 8:13 AM, Nathan Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear all, 
> 
> Please see below information about forthcoming event in York:
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> Karen Mac Cormack & Steve McCaffery
> Thursday 9th June 2016
> Performances at 7:00pm - 8:30pm
> York Medical Society
> 23 Stonegate, York
> YO1 8AW
> 
> FREE 
> Book Tickets through eventbrite: http://actionpoetry.eventbrite.co.uk
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> Event information at: http://www.ouiperformance.org.uk/actionpoetry
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> 
> Oui Performance 
> Action Poetry is a series of performance events that consider the poem as an action. Action Poetry will present artists whose practices explore language in expanded forms hoping to remove boundaries between disciplines and discover new possibilities for the voice, writing and performance.
> 
> This event brings two acclaimed poets based in the United States to York for the first time. Presented as part of the York Festival of Ideas 2016.
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> Karen Mac Cormack is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, most recently AGAINST WHITE (Veer Books, London, 2013). Her poems have appeared in a number of anthologies including ‘Moving Borders’, ‘Out of Everywhere’, ‘Another Language’, and ‘Prismatic Publics’. Her texts have been translated into French, Portuguese, Swedish and Norwegian. An extended interview with her appears in Scott Thurston’s ‘Talking Poetics’ (Shearsman, 2011). Of dual British/Canadian citizenship she currently lives in the USA and teaches at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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> Steve McCaffery is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and criticism. His most recent books are ‘Tatterdemalion’ (Veer Books, 2014); ‘Alice in Plunderland’ (Book Thug, 2015) and ‘Revanches’, a collection of visual and concrete poetry (Xexoxial, 2015). English born and a long-time resident of Toronto, he was a co-founder of the Toronto Research Group (TRG), the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, and the College of Canadian Pataphysics. Since 2004 he has been the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Director and member of the UB Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo.
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> Tweet: #actionpoetry @ouiperformance
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> Nathan Walker
> @nthnwlkr  |   Portfolio  |  Oui Performance
> 
> - My Book, Action Score Generator, has just been published by If P Then Q, Manchester.

Douglas Barbour
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).

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